zx_drift Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) Hey there. I have been on hybridz for awhile, but I realized I haven't posted any pictures of my car or anything. So I'm going to start now, but I'm going to post pictures in chronological order from when I got the car about 5 years ago. I'm slowly gathering all my pictures so I can post them all here. So here is my car when I got it from my dad in 2006... Edited June 3, 2011 by zx_drift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) Totally stock, got it with about 170K miles, non-turbo, 5 speed, brown with tan interior. My dad put MSA lowering springs with KYB GR-2s right after he bought the car. Edited June 3, 2011 by zx_drift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 A few months later, added some Hella driving lights and a sweet Datsun vinyl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xShodaimex Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 reminds me of my old blue 81zx .. it was a beater but man i loved it. The paint looks nice, what are your plans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) reminds me of my old blue 81zx .. it was a beater but man i loved it. The paint looks nice, what are your plans? I have big plans, however the car looks nothing like this now These pictures are from years ago. I'm getting more recent ones gathered up right now. Edited June 3, 2011 by zx_drift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 This is going to hurt a lot of you, I know it hurt me. In June of '07 I was driving the twisties on highway 128 (Lake Beryessa) with one of my buddies. Mind you, my car was pretty much stock at the time, and I definitely shouldn't have been pushing it as hard as I was, but c'mon, I was just a kid! So around 5AM, I'm coming around a right hand sweeper and see headlights coming the other way. I panicked and hit the brakes, and the rear of my car slid into the middle of the road. I ended up swiping the other car with my driver rear quarter. This was taken a few minutes after the crash. I couldn't drive the car home because the quarter was pushed up against the tire. A $600 tow later, the car was back at my house, and my parents were pissssssed haha. So the car sat in my driveway for a couple months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboHLS30 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Well that sucks. I'm excited to see what it looks like now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xShodaimex Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 wow that mustve sucked! shoulda done this!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 I realized later I could've pulled it out a little, but I had no tools or anything with me. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonethirty Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 So whats been going on for the last 3 years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aplyedmind Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 +1 on that Don't leave us hanging like that the suspense is killing me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 (edited) So I didn't drive the car for a few months, but one day decided to go cut out part of the quarter and roll the metal back so I could take my baby for a drive. I drove it with that qp damage for a long time so I could save up for a black dragon quarter skin, new bumper, and quarter window. Got ready one day and went to the shop I was working at to tackle the job. Here's pictures from when I fixed it. It's not the best work, but cmon, it was my first experience with any kind of body work. Edited June 5, 2011 by zx_drift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluDestiny Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 and then what? It's like story time up in this thread 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 Ok time for more! These are in between the body damage and some other stuff, so I'm going to lump them all together. Battery Relocation with cut off switch The battery is now in the spare tire holder, with a custom hold down (needed it for autocross), but I don't have any pictures of it. Energy suspension sway bar bushings & endlinks JDM gauge cluster, only in KM/HR 240sx throttle body with custom tube (pre turbo engine) Schroth Rallye 4 point harness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 A little random but this is a picture of me and my brother with our Z's. OK so... Being as poor as I am because of this car, I couldn't afford to get the quarter repainted, so I decided to flat black the car. 2am nights bored at my house led me to try it. I started with the roof just to see how it would turn out, then every day or so I did more panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 (edited) MSA type 2 airdam I got for my birthday. Unfortunately, the way my driving lights were mounted, they wouldn't fit with the new bumper. Much bondo later, my quarter was finished (although I did a crap job painting it, I just wanted it done). It was time to put the bumper back on. This is with the whole car painted. This side looks better. Edited June 7, 2011 by zx_drift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feero101 Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Please tell me that can is actually your shift knob! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 Please tell me that can is actually your shift knob! haha yeah it's an energy drink can filled with fiberglass resin from the bottom and a threaded sleeve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx_drift Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 post 100! Now getting to the better stuff I had these urethane tension rod bushings... One day, I'm driving down the freeway, hit a slight bump, and I see something fly off the back of my car. No big deal right? As I exit the freeway and come to a stop, the car pulls insanely hard to one side. Oh ****... I look around when I get home, find nothing wrong. Jack it up, look at the brakes, still nothing. Then I find this. The tension rod had sheared off right where it necks down for the bushings. So I go get a new one from the junkyard, and I had an extra set of urethane bushings lying around. I installed them and went on my merry way. A few weeks later, the other side snaps. Great. Same deal there, no other thoughts about it. I snapped probably 3 more tension rods before I'd had enough. I knew Techno Toy Tuning had some fancy ones with heim joints for the S30 chassis. I called up Gabe and asked if they had any for the ZX. Turns out, they didn't. He asked me if I could send him a stock one and some pictures so he could get all the dimensions right. A couple weeks later, he sends me the first ever set to put on my car for free! I took it to my brothers workplace to get it on the alignment rack so we could measure the minimum and maximum caster adjustments you can get out of these baby's, then relayed the information back to techno toy tuning. Pretty awesome deal! I can't seem to find a picture of them in the car at the moment, but I know there is one kicking around somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluDestiny Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm thinking about getting those TC rods too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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